By harvesting water vapor from the air and condensing it into liquid, atmospheric water generators can essentially pull water from the air, and these devices hold a lot of promise for providing an independent source of drinking water.

And although drought-stricken regions and locations without safe or stable water sources are prime candidates for water production and purification devices such as those, residences and commercial buildings in the developed world could also benefit from their use, and they make a great fit for off-grid homes and emergency preparedness kits.

Image: Solar-powered water extractors on top of a roof for residential use. (CREDIT: SOURCE.CO)

A new survey of over 4,000 laid-off tech workers has revealed that a remarkably large proportion start their own businesses shortly after being made redundant.

A huge number of tech companies have made layoffs in 2022, whilst others have taken advantage of video conferencing software and other remote collaboration tools to offer flexible working arrangements and retain the best talent.

Those workers unfortunate enough to be shown the door have decided now is the right time to become their own boss, in spite of the difficult economic climate we're currently living in.

Entrepreneurs and small business owners are usually optimists by nature. After all, they started or have built a company. But you might have the tendency in startups and smaller companies to say yes too often which can be a bad habit since it may result in wasted time, becoming over-committed, losing focus and getting burnt out. At the end, you might make poor decisions and the business might suffer due to lack of resources or simply a lack of focus. What’s the solution? You might need to say ‘No’ more often.

SINGAPORE: It was not too long ago that detractors were pouring cold water on Singapore's efforts to nurture entrepreneurs and start-ups.

For example, a 2012 Reuters' article headlined “Failure to launch: Singapore start-ups struggle to woo investors”, talked about how the country's push "to become a hotbed for entrepreneurs is stuck at stage one" and only 2 per cent of the total venture capital investment in Asia were flowing into Singapore.

Image: It may have been a slow start for Singapore but within a decade, what had seemed like an innovation desert is now looking like a flourishing oasis — so much so that Singapore is being dubbed the "Silicon Valley of Asia". (Photo: Unsplash/Marvin Meyer)

SINGAPORE: It was not too long ago that detractors were pouring cold water on Singapore's efforts to nurture entrepreneurs and start-ups.

For example, a 2012 Reuters' article headlined “Failure to launch: Singapore start-ups struggle to woo investors”, talked about how the country's push "to become a hotbed for entrepreneurs is stuck at stage one" and only 2 per cent of the total venture capital investment in Asia were flowing into Singapore.

Image: It may have been a slow start for Singapore but within a decade, what had seemed like an innovation desert is now looking like a flourishing oasis — so much so that Singapore is being dubbed the "Silicon Valley of Asia". (Photo: Unsplash/Marvin Meyer)

Scientists at KU Leuven have taken an important step towards the industrial production of panels that can extract green hydrogen gas from the air. After testing several prototypes, they are now ready for the next step: industrial production. By 2030, they hope to be able to install the panels on the roofs of homes.

Hydrogen is the smallest and lightest of all chemical elements and has a special property: it carries energy. Hydrogen gas is an energy carrier that can store and produce both electricity and heat.

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Innovation experts have today revealed a futuristic blueprint for how the cardboard box might evolve in the next 50 years.

Released to celebrate the 150th year of the cardboard box, the characteristics of the self-healing box include a webbed nerve system that borrows from the composition of leaves.

Sensors are printed onto the ‘skin’ of the box and connect all fibres in the packaging so that it can ascertain damage and communicate externally.

Other features – revealed by experts at DS Smith – include regenerative ‘scar tissue’, which heals itself just like the human body.

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According to TechCrunch, tech giant Google has acquired 'Alter' – an artificial intelligence (AI) Avatar startup – for about $100 million USD with an intention to amp up its content game and compete with TikTok.

Alter is a platform that employs AI tools to help social media brands and users to express their virtual identity and now it has been acquired by Google. According to several media reports, Google had acquired Alter, an AI Avatar Startup, two months back. However, they have not released any official statement regarding the same yet.

In a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment, it's easy to get overwhelmed and bogged down by your to-do list. However, with a little organization and some effective time management techniques, you can learn to manage a busy schedule and keep on top of your workload.

One of the main benefits of being your own boss is the ability to set your own schedule and make your own decisions about when, where and how you work. But the hard truth about being an entrepreneur is that it can also be incredibly time-consuming and downright overwhelming...

As leaves across America make their annual autumn pilgrimage from the treetops to the ground, lawn and wildlife experts say it's better to leave them around than to bag them.

First, because it keeps leaves out of landfills. Every year, about 8 million tons of leaves end up there.

And second, because leaves help the grass.

Leaves are full of nutrients, including nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

"Those nutrients are being returned to the soil," Susan Barton, a professor and extension specialist in landscape horticulture at the University of Delaware, told NPR. "But probably even more important than that, it's the organic matter. It's the fact that you've got this tissue that then eventually decomposes and improves the soil health."

Image: It's best to chop up leaves, which will then break down in the grass. Rake excess amounts into a landscape bed. Kris Lord/Flickr Creative Commons

“There’s more dry powder powder than ever before.”

“There’s never been a better time to start a startup.”

“Discipline is the new scale.” (OK, OK, I made that last one up, but didn’t you kind of believe it?).

The tech industry loves generalizations — and don’t worry, I enjoy my fair share too — but as the downturn continues to play out, it’s increasingly important to think about the structural changes that may be forming in the venture capital landscape. Venture firms, unlike unicorns, often don’t have hundreds of employees to cut. Instead, venture firms cut costs in quieter ways.

Apple, Google, and other companies mandating that employees work in the office for most or all of their time claim that any time spent working remotely stifles innovation. According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, "Innovation isn't always a planned activity. It's bumping into each other over the course of the day and advancing an idea that you just had. And you really need to be together to do that."

Yet is this true? On the one hand, research at MIT found that remote work weakens the cross-functional, inter-team "weak ties" that form the basis for the exchange of new ideas that tend to foster innovation. A study by Microsoft similarly found that remote work weakens innovation since workers communicate less with those outside their own teams.

Undoubtedly, we are living in a world of ever-increasing hyper-specialization. The advantages of being a specialist rather than a generalist have become more than obvious ever since Henry Ford innovated the production line. However, the trend toward specialization is much older.

In the ancient world, most intellectuals (usually philosophers) were polymaths. Yet, as knowledge accumulates and the complexity of each field increases, it becomes increasingly difficult to be up to speed and to understand all knowledge branches deeply enough to be competent and productive.

Based on recent venture funding figures, now might not seem like the best time to invest in startups. Figures show that VC funding levels are down across the board, and particularly at later stage, which saw a drop of 40% quarter-over-quarter in Q2 and 63% year-over-year. Various media outlets are also predicting leaner times for the sector, with The Financial Times recently declaring that the ‘party is over’ for VCs.

Every company strives to be innovative, but most are missing key ingredients. How can you identify which ingredients your organization needs — and which employee styles can fill in the gaps? The authors’ research distills four key innovation styles that can lead to success — generators, conceptualizers, optimizers, and implementors — and explains how common they are across sectors.

It's human nature to want to share great news: getting a new job, buying a new home, having a new baby on the way. The glow of all the good wishes from friends and family is an intrinsic reward.

So when sharing good news when the stakes are as high as winning an investment, why would you not be shouting it from the rooftops?

BullFrog AI Holdings, Inc. (BFAI) plans to raise $8 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Tuesday, November 8th, IPO Scoop reports. The company will be issuing 1,300,000 shares at a price of $6.38 per share.

WallachBeth Capital and ViewTrade Securities served as the underwriters for the IPO.

BullFrog AI Holdings, Inc. provided the following description of their company for its IPO: “(Note: This is a unit IPO of 1.32 million units at $6.375 per unit. Each unit consists of one share of our common stock and one tradeable warrant to buy one share of common stock. A 1-for-7 reverse stock split will take place before the IPO closes.)  We use artificial intelligence and machine learning to advance medicines for both internal and external projects.

No one anticipated the massive shift to home-based remote work that happened in 2020 with the onset of the pandemic. A new study surveyed managers and employees alike for what worked and what didn’t as they navigated managing and being managed remotely. The key finding was a subtle but important shift in how employees expected their managers to work with them. They wanted their managers to be present, hands-on, and operationally vigilant without being intrusive.

Open source software is deeply embedded in enterprises today: from the Linux kernel to data center infrastructure, and from databases to application servers and front ends. The importance of securing the supply chain has become front and center in the industry, with the US government's involvement and the formation of industry bodies such as OpenSSF to work on solutions.

An artificial intelligence system from Google's sibling company DeepMind stumbled on a new way to solve a foundational math problem at the heart of modern computing, a new study finds. A modification of the company’s game engine AlphaZero (famously used to defeat chess grandmasters and legends in the game of Go) outperformed an algorithm that had not been improved on for more than 50 years, researchers say.